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Xiao Zhouheng is known by the people of Jinling as the most beautiful and colorful, and he is also one of the "Three Masters of Jinling", because he is good at elaborating prose, dancing with brushes and ink, and has a reminiscent attitude.

He came from a good background, but unfortunately his family was in decline, he became a poor child who lost his parents since he was a child, and the rest of his ancestral family property was also taken over by others.Xiao Zhouheng, who was in such a situation, won the Juren a few years ago, which became a great joy in the city. Unfortunately, Xiao Zhouheng returned to Jinling City shortly after he went to Beijing, and returned to his house at the end of the alley to thank the guests behind closed doors. , no one was seen.

Asked the reason, Yu Bocheng, the chief arrester of Jinling who claimed to be Xiao Zhouheng's best friend, replied on his behalf: "It is true that the capital city is not half as good as Jinling. Lost its graceful and graceful demeanor, ruined a pair of beautiful and elegant body bones.

Later, one day several months later, under the crowd of neighbors watching, a majestic carriage stopped at the gate of Xiao Zhouheng's house, picked up the great writer, and hurried to Jinling's most prestigious Li's Mansion .Naturally, Yu Bocheng was also among the crowd, seeing this scene, he beat his chest and stamped his feet several times, and said that his lord is a noble person, and that time is not with scholars.

Everyone also sighed: It's useless to be born with a strong character in this world, no matter how serious you are born, you still have to beg for food.

From then on, Xiao Zhouheng became a teacher in Li's house, and I heard that Li's family specially set up a large room for Xiao Zhouheng to teach the children in the house to read and paint while living in the house.

The Li family of Jinling in Jiangning Mansion was a favorite of several dynasties, and the current General Li Yanqing of the Li Mansion, Li Yanqing, had been a nobleman when the late emperor was in power.Five years ago when the present-day sage ascended the throne, Li Yanqing was promoted to a first-rank Taiwei, and now he is also named "General Gubei", and he is currently stationing troops and horses at the border.

Li Yanqing is fifty years away, more than eight feet long, with sword eyes and star eyebrows, and extraordinary bearing, she can bear the name of a dragon among men.If it weren't for the wounds on his hands covered with swords, guns, swords and halberds, everyone who saw him would have thought he was a great Confucian.

Li Yanqing was afraid that her family would be neglected, and she would stand alone. She had been fighting abroad for many years, and if something went wrong, she would not be able to communicate with her ancestors.In order to keep the blood of Li's family unbroken, he thought of the simplest way, which is to marry a wife and take concubines. They are all beauties, so the young masters and young ladies in the Li family are also closely marked.

When the population is prosperous, Li Yanqing is naturally afraid that the Holy One will be jealous of the power of the Li family. In addition to observing the rituals of the emperor and his ministers, in order to show his loyalty to the Holy One, the children born in the Li family will use the words "Yi Shixi Mo Guang, Jingwei won In the name of "No Arrogance", it is a wish that has been virtuous for many generations, forged in the afterglow, and should not be done arbitrarily.I remember that when these words reached the ears of the first emperor, he sighed at the shamelessness of Li Qing's family.Then the name of the Li family in Jinling was plated with several layers of gold in the workshop.

Although the Li Mansion has a good reputation, it still depends on others. As for the question of why Xiao Zhouheng, who once wrote "But he will perish as an official, and he will not lose his beauty and return to his bones*", is willing to live under the eaves of the Li Mansion. There are different opinions: firstly, the people of Jinling speculate that this extraordinary beauty is not because of the waistlines and temples, or because of the exhaustion of body and mind for the sake of the country, but because of the sympathy of scholars who refuse to admit that they are not on the list; It's Li Zhuoyue, the sixteenth lady who covets Li's mansion. It's false to enter the mansion as a teacher, and it's true to be close to the water.

Miss Yueyue is only at the age of Ji, and although she has never been shown in the pavilion, she was recognized by people when she was admiring the lanterns on the first lunar month a year ago. She was surprised by the crowd and attracted hundreds of portraits by painters. All the women in the painting have pink faces and vermilion lips, clear lead and plain dimples, really like the little Ping Ting Shuixian Xuannv who came to the world.Li Zhuyue's shyness and flamboyance, Xiao Zhouheng's dusty and shocking talent, coupled with Yu Bocheng's evasive words when asked about this matter, it seems that the beautiful story of "talented men match beautiful women" has been secretly spread in Jinling City.

Of course, Xiao Zhouheng never responded to any of those rumors. Firstly, he didn’t know about these rumors, and secondly, he never communicated with Yu Bocheng at all. It was all Yu Bocheng’s own guess.So much so that after Xiao Zhouheng knew these right and wrong later, he always felt that his good reputation was ruined by Yu Bocheng.

It rained again last night.

Upon waking up, Xiao Zhouheng only felt that his back was sore and his back was sore. The cold air in Jinling always came earlier than other places, and within a few days of autumn, the air-conditioning crept into the room through the window pane coffin.Earlier, Xiao Zhouheng was studying the old disease of falling neck at his desk, which made Xiao Zhouheng know when the clouds turned to rain and when the dew turned to frost without having to watch the stars at night.

As soon as Xiao Zhouheng got up reluctantly, he heard the maid outside the house say: "Mr. is awake? Bie Hong can come in and wait for Mr. to change clothes and wash?"

The servant girl who served Xiao Zhouheng had just entered the mansion and didn't have a name yet. Xiao Zhouheng showed some pity for the maidservant, and seeing that she was young, he called her "don't be popular" and agreed with her. Say goodbye to the flowers without words, look carefully at the meaning of the red * on the branches.Even though it was an unintentional act, it could be regarded as a literati's elegance, but Bie Hong was very grateful, and said with snot and tears that he wanted to serve Xiao Zhouheng well.

"Come in." As soon as the words were finished, Biehong entered the room, brought the washing water with his hands and feet swiftly, saw that Xiao Zhouheng had already changed his clothes, and said flatly, "Sir, are you dressing by yourself again?"

Xiao Zhouheng twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Bie Hong prepares the toilet for Xiaosheng every day, Xiaosheng is very grateful, how can he ask for more." Xiao Zhouheng himself was born with a face like Yan Ruyu , don't be red when he saw him smile and blushed: "Sir, if you say that, you are a slave girl."

He lowered his head again and said in a soft voice, "Sir, you should smile more."

Bie Hong delivered one after another carrying boxes while talking, untied the embroidered pattern cover outside the box, quickly put all the small dishes on the food table in the room, and continued: "I heard that Mr. is cold, today The sky was gloomy, so I asked the kitchen to make some food to keep out the cold, and I don't know if it suits my husband's taste."

"Don't be red-faced."

Bie Hong smiled mischievously, and was about to pour tea for Xiao Zhouheng, when he suddenly thought of something, his face darkened suddenly, and he said mysteriously: "Sir, I know that the ghost man has appeared again, and everyone in the Yang Mansion in Zhenjiang is dead." Empty!"

Ghost Wife specifically refers to the suspects of several major crimes that occurred in the eight prefectures of the south of the Yangtze River 20 years ago. An unknown handsome young man knocked on the door and stayed in the mansion by staying in the mansion. Take all the money from top to bottom, and kill all the family members.This case happened four times in total. The scale was so large and the situation was dire. It caused a period of panic in Jiangnan, Jiangbei, and everyone was in danger. It is still an unsolved case.

It's a pity that how these people committed crimes and what their means are unknown to the general public. There are only rumors in the market, and what can be confirmed is that the suspects are all men with good looks and dignified appearance, and then the people call these people "ghosts".

"Ghost?" Xiao Zhouheng frowned slightly. Although he had heard about this tragedy when he was young, it was a pity that after reading the book, he attributed this unsolved case and other anecdotes in the market to ghosts and heresies. After all, those people The story spread back and forth until it became untrue in the end. Xiao Zhouheng didn't believe it, so he wasn't interested in what Bie Hong said, and naturally he didn't want to talk to her more. He just said: "Don't talk nonsense, Zhenjiang Yang Fu Yang The master has always been domineering and domineering, probably because he has a grudge with others, and the enemy's family came to seek revenge."

Seeing that Xiao Zhouheng's spirits were waning, Bie Hong stopped mentioning the ghost wife, and said disgruntledly: "What the master said is that the servant girl is going to see if the ladies and young masters are up or not." After saying that, Bie Hong filled the teacup, He trotted away.

After eating, a group of maidservants came in to pack the tableware, Xiao Zhouheng lay on his side on the couch, listened to the sound of rain outside, flipped through the book boredly, and saw Bie Hong come in and said that the young master and miss were all preparing in the study. Well, I heard that today Xiao Zhouheng is going to give a lecture on the Book of Yi Zhou, and the fifteenth young master Li Yunwei also wants to come and listen.

Thinking of the children in the Li family, Xiao Zhouheng's temples twitched - he may not be very good at dealing with these yellow-mouthed children in the deep house, he doesn't know the world, but he always likes to argue with himself, in the end The well-known Jinling Jueyan is not like a master, but more like a companion.

If Xiao Zhouheng put on the airs of a master, those little ancestors would go to the second wife Zeng to complain, and in the end he would end up with a few "teachings" hidden in a few sentences, and he couldn't say enough inside and out. It's just that a mere Juren really regards himself as a scholar of the Hanlin University.Xiao Zhouheng never defended herself, which made the second wife find an outlet to vent, from aunt's grievances to children's disputes, endlessly.

After dawdling on the couch for a while, Xiao Zhouheng barely propped himself up to teach.

This Li's mansion covers an area of ​​more than tens of mu, and it was renovated from the inside to the outside a few years ago. Although Xiao Zhouheng lived in Li's mansion for a long time, let's not mention the residence of the female family members in the inner mansion. It's this outer courtyard, Xuanxie courtyard, Xiao Zhouheng dare not say that he has visited completely.

Although Li's family treats him well, Xiao Zhouheng knows in his heart that even if he treats each other with the courtesy of a teacher here in Li's house, he must be cautious in everything, and must not overstep his role.Therefore, except for his own room, the study room where he teaches, and several yards in front of Li's mansion, he has not set foot in other places.

Therefore, Xiao Zhouheng didn't know how big the Li Mansion was.Fortunately, the teaching place is not very far from the place where Xiao Zhouheng lived, and he walked through some long corridors, and then walked through a towering pine and cypress in the courtyard.However, the study in Li's residence is as big as an ordinary private school outside.Pushing open the door and entering, I saw three children sitting upright, namely: eighteenth young master Li Yunwu, nineteenth young master Li Yunwang, and twenty young lady Li Longsha.

But I didn't see the fifteenth young master Li Yunwei who wanted to attend the class together.

"Why don't you see Master Fifteen?"

"Someone came to recognize relatives at the door again, brother fifteen went to see." Li Longsha said in a childish voice.

After waiting for a long time for Li Yunwei to come back, Xiao Zhouheng remembered that the sixth young master Li Yunyi who was in charge had gone out in the past few days, and the other young masters did not live in Li's house all the year round, worrying that Li Yunwei would not be able to cope with the people coming at the door when he was young.So Xiao Zhouheng asked the three children to copy the copybook first, and then went to the door to find out.

The author has something to say: But I have to die as a minister, and I will not lose my beauty and return to my bones: I messed up my own writing.

Speechless farewell to flowers, look closely at the red on the branches: from "Xi Hua" written by Ren Fan in the Tang Dynasty

Slow and thick, the two meet in the next chapter.